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Orchid Species: Habenaria riparia
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Habenaria riparia is an orchid species identified by Renz & Grosvenor in 1979.
ORIGIN: Found in the Nyika Plateau of Malawi in wet grass near stream at elevations around 2150 to 2180 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Large sized, cold growing terrestrial with small, ellisoid tubers giving rise to 7 to 10, lowermost 1 to 2 sheathlike, black-spotted, the next few, linear to narrowly lanceolate, the uppermost grading smaller into the bracts leaves that blooms in the later summer and early spring on an erect, terminal, 3.2 to 6.4 [8 to 16 cm] long, fairly lax to fairly densely several to many flowered inflorescence with much shorter thnan the pedicel, sparsely hairy floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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